services.xserver.displayManager.sddm.theme = "nixos" about kde-plasma-chili HOT 6 CLOSED

Just in case anyone stumbles across this issue, changing your SDDM theme is pretty easy in NixOS, just point it to the path of the theme:

services.xserver.displayManager.sddm.theme = "${(pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
    owner = "MarianArlt";
    repo = "kde-plasma-chili";
    rev = "a371123959676f608f01421398f7400a2f01ae06";
    sha256 = "17pkxpk4lfgm14yfwg6rw6zrkdpxilzv90s48s2hsicgl3vmyr3x";
})}";

sddm-kcm doesn't work without making your Nix store writable, which is the wrong solution to any Nix-related issue :P

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Please refer to the README. The safest way to install this theme is to use the system settings. This requires the sddm-kcm package to be installed (system settings configuration module for SDDM). For NixOS you can install the package with nix-env -i sddm-kcm
If you don't want to install extra packages (sddm-kcm is really small...) you can manually put the files into place and add the line you mentioned to the configuration, yes.
Hope this helps

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@MarianArlt Seems pretty strange that a "nixos" theme doesn't have an easy way to install through configraution.nix. Can you clarify why that is?

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Yes @IvanMalison I can. When I made this theme I was thinking about a nice swinging name for it and came up with NixOS in my mind (apparently referring to MacOS). I didn't know back then that there was a whole linux distribution called that way. I am actually considering to rename my theme soon since it's a reason for confusion.

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Just in case anyone stumbles across this issue, changing your SDDM theme is pretty easy in NixOS, just point it to the path of the theme:

services.xserver.displayManager.sddm.theme = "${(pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
    owner = "MarianArlt";
    repo = "kde-plasma-chili";
    rev = "a371123959676f608f01421398f7400a2f01ae06";
    sha256 = "17pkxpk4lfgm14yfwg6rw6zrkdpxilzv90s48s2hsicgl3vmyr3x";
})}";

sddm-kcm doesn't work without making your Nix store writable, which is the wrong solution to any Nix-related issue :P

You're the best, ive been searching for 7 hours to doit, changing and making something here and there, and the solution turns out really simple.

but one more thing, since its just get all the file and configuration from git, which including the included wallpaper, what if i want to change the wallpaper? how to do it? thank you :)

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Just in case anyone stumbles across this issue, changing your SDDM theme is pretty easy in NixOS, just point it to the path of the theme:

services.xserver.displayManager.sddm.theme = "${(pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
    owner = "MarianArlt";
    repo = "kde-plasma-chili";
    rev = "a371123959676f608f01421398f7400a2f01ae06";
    sha256 = "17pkxpk4lfgm14yfwg6rw6zrkdpxilzv90s48s2hsicgl3vmyr3x";
})}";

sddm-kcm doesn't work without making your Nix store writable, which is the wrong solution to any Nix-related issue :P

You're the best, ive been searching for 7 hours to doit, changing and making something here and there, and the solution turns out really simple.

but one more thing, since its just get all the file and configuration from git, which including the included wallpaper, what if i want to change the wallpaper? how to do it? thank you :)

In case you haven't found a solution to this, easiest would probably be to add in the wallpaper during the install phase. Example with another SDDM theme:

{ pkgs }:

let
  imgLink = "https://YOURIMAGELINK/image.png";

  image = pkgs.fetchurl {
    url = imgLink;
    sha256 = "sha256-HrcYriKliK2QN02/2vFK/osFjTT1NamhGKik3tozGU0=";
  };
in
pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
  name = "sddm-theme";
  src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
    owner = "MarianArlt";
    repo = "sddm-sugar-dark";
    rev = "ceb2c455663429be03ba62d9f898c571650ef7fe";
    sha256 = "0153z1kylbhc9d12nxy9vpn0spxgrhgy36wy37pk6ysq7akaqlvy";
  };
  installPhase = ''
    mkdir -p $out
    cp -R ./* $out/
    cd $out/
    rm Background.jpg
    cp -r ${image} $out/Background.jpg
   '';
}

Source: https://github.com/vimjoyer/theming-video/blob/main/README.md

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